ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 74.25 Hours of tutorials: 2.25 Expository Class: 18 Interactive Classroom: 18 Total: 112.5
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: English and German Philology
Areas: English Philology
Center Faculty of Law
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
Aims: This course aims to:
a) enable students to understand how legal English works by introducing its basic linguistic and legal features.
b) enable students to anlyse, understand, and translate legal English texts.
Objectives: Knowledge and understanding:
By the end of the course, students are expected to gain enough knowledge and understanding of the linguistic structures of legal English.
Students are also expected to gain sufficient practical skills both to parse and translate legal English texts and to carry out grammatical, textual and legal analyses.
Units
1) Legal system
- Structure of the law
- The constitution
- Jurisdiction
2) Sources of law: Legislation
- Making a new law
- Development of a Bill
- Passing an Act
3) Sources of law: Common law
- Common law in the UK
- Law reports
4) The Court system
- Civil courts
- Criminal courts
5) Criminal Justice and Criminal proceedings
- Criminal justice
- Criminal offences
- Criminal court proceedings
6) Civil procedure
- Civil procedure rules
- Proceeding with a claim
7) Tribunals
- Status and range of tribunals
- Composition of tribunals and procedure
8) European Union law
- European Union Law and Member States
9) Solicitors
- Training
- Partners in law firms
10) Barristers
- Organisation
- Training and qualification of practising barristers
11) Company staff
- Company commercial lawyers
12) Judges
- Training
- Sentencing and court orders
13) Law firm's structure and practice
- Structure and practice
14) Legal professionals in practice
- Client care proceedings
15) Money laundering procedures
- Procedures
16) Client correspondence
- Commercial letters, mails: legal forms
17)Explaining a procedure
- Rephrasing and clarifying
18) Legalese
- Legal wording
19) Business organisations
- Sole trader
- Partnerships
- Limited Companies
20 ) Formation of a Company
- Incorporation
- Memorandum
- Articles of Association
21) Raising capital
- Share capital
- Share value
- Rights attaching shares
22) Debt financing: secured lending
- Granting security
- The terms of a charge
ibliografía básica
G. D. Brown and S. Rice, professional English in Use, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Barnard, D., The civil Court in Action, Butterworths, Londres, 1985.
- Barnard, D., The Criminal Court in Action, Butterworths, 1988.
- Meador, D. J., American Courts, West Publishing Co., St. Paul, Minn., 1991.
- Solan, L. M., The Language of Judges, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1993.
Dicionarios:
- Dicionarios electrónicos on line (cf. Servizos da UE). Se presentarán na clase
- Iglesias Rábade, L., Dictionary of Legal English (PDF)
A) Cognitive (Knowledge):
- Knowledge of the basic legal English terminology
- Management of techniques and methods of linguistic analysis.
- Management of translation techniques of legal English texts.
- Knowledge of the legalese used by practicing lawyers
- Knowledge of the variety of legal text types and registers
B) Procedural / Instrumental (Know how):
- Ability to perform linguistic analyses and commentaries on legal contexts.
- Explanatory power of the texts through translation.
C) Attitude (behave):
- Activate the fascination for legal English.
The contents of the subject will be given in two weekly sessions.
The first session will be a theoretical exposition of the contents to be developed in the other session of the week, which will be taught interactively.
Students must work actively participating in the tasks, particularly, translations and linguistic commentaries.
In the event that any of the contingency scenarios is rule, students will comply with what is indicated in the observations section under the heading of "Contingency Plan"
First call (in May)
- Final exam: 90%
- Attendance and active participation: 10%
Second call (July)
The assessment on the second opportunity will be based on the same criteria:
- Final exam: 80%
- Attendance and active participation: 10%;
The final examen is compulsory. If they do not take their final exam, they will be registered as NON PRESENTADOS in both calls, even if students attend and actively participate in class and perform all homework activities.
In the event that any of the contingency scenarios is rule, students will comply with what is indicated in the observations section under the heading of "Contingency Plan"
Study time and individual work: 75 hours
- Requirement: upper-intermediate level of English
- Attendance and active participation in every task at hand.
New Scenarios ("Contingency Plan")
Methodology:
In the event that the academic authorities ruled scenarios 2 or 3, the methodology will be adapted to the guidelines set out by the USC and to the course of action ordered by the Faculty, so that if classroom teaching activities could not be carried out, teaching will be carried out in virtual resorting with the institutional tools made available by the USC, combining synchronous activities (mainly through the TEAMS platform) and / or asynchronous (mainly through TEAMS or Moodle) depending on the type of activity.
Evaluation/Assessment:
“In the blended teaching modality, the same evaluation system will be maintained, whenever possible, as in scenario 1. If this is not possible and in the case of scenario 3, the face-to-face tests will be replaced by telematic tests (synchronous or asynchronous, oral or written) using institutional tools ”.
Plagiarism in assessment:
In case of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions contained under art. 16 of "Regulamento de avaliación do rendemento académico dos estudantes e revisión das cualificacións" that rules:
"Un desempeño fraudulento de calquera exercicio ou evidencia exixida na valiación dunha materia implicará unha cualificación de suspense na correspondente convocatoria, independentemente do proceso disciplinario que se poida seguir contra o alumno infractor. Considerarse fraudulentos, entre outros, realizar traballos en plaxa ou obtidos de fontes accesibles ao público ou desde o mesmo sen reelaborar ou reinterpretar os autores e fontes".
Luis Iglesias Rábade
Coordinador/a- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- Phone
- 881811897
- luis.iglesias.rabade [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
| Tuesday | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00-13:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | English | Conf. hall Lete del Rio |
| Wednesday | |||
| 11:00-12:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | English | Conf. hall Lete del Rio |
| 01.11.2021 13:00-15:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Assembly Hall |
| 07.05.2021 10:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 4 |